H
ennessey has released final photos,
specs, and information of its all-new
Hennessey Venom F5 hypercar. And
although we may have become jaded
after the numbers put out by the
likes of the Bugatti Chiron , SSC Tuatara,
and vehicles hailing from Italy and
Germany, you have to admit Hennessey is
making a pretty strong statement.
The basic ingredients make for
astounding reading. The 6.6-liter
twin-turbo V-8 produces—wait for it—a
claimed 1,817 hp at 8,000 rpm and 1,193
lb-ft of torque at 5,000 rpm. Hennessey
calls its mighty motor the Fury and says
it’s the most powerful production road
car engine ever produced.
MotorTrend was recently granted
exclusive time with the new monster to
see it in the raw carbon and to hear the,
ahem, fury of its mighty twin-turbo V-8
blasting into life.
Those headline-grabbing power figures
are produced on E85 fuel with the Venom
in F5 Vmax mode. Pump gas will reducethe total output by a couple of hundred
horses, we estimate. (Hennessey has yet
to release solid power numbers for the
car on non-E85 fuel.)
Just 24 Venom F5s will be built— 12
for the U.S. market and a further 12 for
the rest of the world—at $2.1 million a
pop plus taxes (up from the original $1.6
million price). Hennessey targets a top
speed in excess of 311 mph (a convenient
500 kph for you international types).
The Venom F5 itself is surprisingly
subtle for a car of such outrageous
potential, and Hennessey is keen to
talk up its dynamics and driver engage-
ment. In other words, it’s not just
designed to be a mid-engine dragster or
speed-record breaker.
The key to its personality, Hennessey
officials say, is the F5’s stiff and light
(about 189 pounds) carbon-fiber tub,
which is made in the U.K., where much of
the car was engineered by Hennessey’s
technical partner, Delta Motorsport. This
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look at what the F5
Venom is all about.rear and A-arm suspension with Penske
coil-over dampers at each corner. With
simplicity and lightweight components
as key targets, Hennessey says the car
weighs just 3,000 pounds dry. That’s
lighter than, say, a Lotus Evora, but with
more than four times the power. You have
permission to drool.APRIL 2021 MOTORTREND.COM 73THE FINAL SPECS ARE FURIOUSLY HIGH FOR HENNESSEY’S
NEW MID-ENGINE MONSTER. THE QUESTION REMAINS
WHETHER IT ACTUALLY DELIVERS ON THOSE NUMBERS.